Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

SPMF’s architecture (1) The Algorithm Manager

In this new series of blog posts, I will talk about the architecture of the SPMF data mining library, and in particular, I will talk about the AlgorithmManager, which is a key component of SPMF, which manages all the algorithms … Continue reading

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How to call SPMF from Visual Basic .Net (VB)?

Today, I will explain how to use SPMF from Visual Basic .Net. Previously, I have explained how to call SPMF from C#, from R, from C++ (on Windows) and from Python. Requirements Let me first describe the requirements. It is … Continue reading

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How to call SPMF from a C++ Program (Windows)?

I will explain how to call SPMF from a C++ program for the Windows platform. If you are interested by other programming languages, you can check my previous blog posts, where I give examples of how to call SPMF from … Continue reading

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How to call SPMF from R?

In previous blog posts, I have explained how to call SPMF as an external program from Python and how to call SPMF from C#. Today, I will explain how to call SPMF from an R program. Requirements Since SPMF is … Continue reading

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How to call SPMF from Python (as an external program)?

In this blog post, I will explain how to call the SPMF data mining library from Python. Generally, there are two ways to call SPMF from Python. The first way is to use an unofficial Python wrapper for SPMF such as … Continue reading

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How to call SPMF from C#?

This blog post is the first of a series of blog post on using SPMF from different programming languages. Today, I will explain how to call the SPMF data mining library from C#. In other blog posts, I explain how … Continue reading

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Happy New Year 2023!

To all readers of this blog, I would like to wish you a happy new year 2023! Recently, I have been very busy due to the end of semester and also having COVID. But now, I am fully recovered. Two … Continue reading

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Brief report about the BDA 2022 conference

This week, I wasattending the BDA 2022 conference, which is the 10th International Conference on Big Data Analytics. The BDA 2022 conference washeld in Hyderabad, India from the 20th to 22nd December 2022. The BDA conference is an international conference … Continue reading

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Unethical reviewers in academia (part 3)

Previously, I wrote two blog posts about unethical reviewers in academia (part 1 and part 2). It is not that I like this topic, but today, I will talk again about that. Why? Because, I keep encountering them, unfortunately. It … Continue reading

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CFP Special issue on Data Science to Transform How We Work and Live

I co-organize a special issue in the DSE (Data Science and Engineering) journal, published by Springer, about how data science can be used to transform how we work and live. Guest Editors: The planned schedule is as follows: Submission Deadline: … Continue reading

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